Saturday, June 16, 2012

Symantec Intelligence Report: May 2012

Symantec has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for May 2012.

Report highlights:
- Spam – 67.8 percent (an increase of 3.3 percentage points since April)
- Phishing – One in 568.3 emails identified as phishing (a decrease of 0.03 percentage points since April)
- Malware – One in 365.1 emails contained malware (an increase of 0.03 percentage points since April)
- Malicious Web sites – 4,359 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 48.7 percent since April)
- Targeted Attacks, Cyber Espionage and W32.Flamer
- London 2012 Olympic Games – Spammers Aiming for the Gold
- Flashback—The day of the Mac threat has arrived

The report can be viewed here.

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